... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...cial interactions and is equally misunderstood there. Consider taxpayers and their government. Contrary to conservative lore, the former want the g... ...on in high places, cronyism, nepotism, inaptitude and worse - on condition that the government and the legislature redistribute the wealth they conf... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...stems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precisely such a system. Locally, though, order is often fighting disorder for dominance.... ...Locally, though, order is often fighting disorder for dominance. In other words, in localized, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, ... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

...GOD PROPHECY by Dr. Paraskev 2 Introduction For some of us, this is a spiritual book that tells the real Truth of God. And the t... ...we could walk easily, smoothly, within a normal human lifetime. For others of us, it is a book that reveals what the future holds. For each human and ... ... illuminated it ... “24. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light ...” This is how Christians foresaw the coming of God’s Kingdo... ...resident Woodrow Wilson said : “ Why has Jesus Christ so far not succeeded in inducing the world to follow his teachings ? It is because he taught the... ... a lot the 21st-century EU structures: common economy, currency, politics, government, parliament, judiciary system and laws (along with specific loca... ...cs, government, parliament, judiciary system and laws (along with specific local ones). At last, all countries are mostly incorporated into it. And on... ...ies are mostly incorporated into it. And only now, the UN becomes the real government and parliament of the whole humankind. The world is a one whole ... ...t only Messages of God. And they will come only at the key points of human history. Just as they did as the holy books (Vedas, Bible, Koran, etc.) or ... ...ssiahs. And so, they will come. Each at the appropriate key point of human history. Apocalypse “... And when the powerful wind will sound the trumpet ...

...For some of us, this is a spiritual book that tells the real Truth of God. And the true Path to God. A pragmatic Path we could walk easily, smoothly, within a normal human lifetime. For others of us, it is a book that reveals ...

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...very dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on in... ...n the experience of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’... ...inds us more nearly together. No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way... ...am, Jeffrey, Horner, Benjamin Constant, Robert Emmet, and many a legal and local celebrity besides. By an accident, variously explained, it has its ro... ...his inventions: 61 Memories and Portraits holding as the Stevensons did a Government appointment they regarded their original work as something due a...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ... of- ficer; and, though he sometimes tempered severity with mercy, we have local testimony oddly representing the pub- lic feeling of the period, that... ...he would not “for an instant recognise that political organisation for his government which is the slave’s government also.” “I do not hesitate to say... ... effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay... ...compression, a brutal vivacity of epi- thet, a homely vigour, a delight in local personalities, and an interest in many sides of life, that are often ...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ...ntributed many essays, and which he made a medium for agitating a variety of local reforms. In 1732 he began to issue his famous “Poor Richard’s Alman... ...ngland as agent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively oppos... ...ew England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly... ... verse of that time and people, and addressed to those then concerned in the government there. It was in favor of lib erty of conscience, and in beha... ...rticu larly procur’d us from the Quakers the printing forty sheets of their history, the rest being to be done by Keimer; and upon this we work’d exc...

...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was b...

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...nd more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this na... ...position of an event without a cause, a voluntary action without a motive. History, politics, morals, criticism, all grounds of reasonings, 168 Volum... ...on- viction of His existence. But the God of Theologians is inca- pable of local visibility. 2d, Reason. It is urged that man knows that whatever is m... ...a tyranny over the understandings of men: hence atheism never disturbs the government, but renders man more clear-sighted, since he seas nothing beyon... ...orted: we quar- rel, persecute, and hate for its maintenance. Even under a government which, whilst it infringes the very right of thought and speech,...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

...MER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ........................................................................

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re... ... PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Exist... ...stems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precisely such a system. Locally, though, order is often fighting disorder for dominance.... ...Locally, though, order is often fighting disorder for dominance. In other words, in localized, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, ... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ...s in Israel, Canada, the UK and the USA. Consultant to foreign RND ventures and to Governments on macro-economic matters. Freelance journalist in ... ...tock Exchange, and by the Ministry of Trade. 1999 to 2002 Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and to the Ministry of F...

Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...ield- author=Paul%20Alexander%20Bartlett If you would like to ask your local library to acquire a copy, it’s helpful to the library to give the b... ...n sense and law, this is the cause to which we must pledge ourselves. Our local tyrants must go. They realize there isn’t enough corn. Poverty, we m... ... VOICES FROM THE PAST 66 me the poet’s advice to his brother. How history repeats itself! Family problems haven’t changed: this is an earlier... ...sical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. The history of man became an important part of my meditations. Silence and the... ...llages, towns. “Our work is to be carried out among our countrymen while governments interfere.” “We love you...we had nothing to do with the cruc... ... and Matthew, if P VOICES FROM THE PAST 210 James joined us. When government cruelty diminishes I want Peter to preach in Rome. In my bedro...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

...Considerations on Representative Government By JOHN STUART MILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES... ...LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...d uct, and the science of government as a branch (so to speak) of natural history. According to them, forms of government are not a matter of choice.... ...e ancient world, though there might be, and often was, great individual or local independence, there could be noth ing like a regulated popular gover... ...e more and more difficult to check, until it reached a state often seen in history, and in which many large portions of mankind even now grovel; when ... ... opinion to form and express itself on na tional affairs. He might suffer local interests to be managed, without the interference of authority, by th...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...to command and women are under an obligation obey, or that men are fit for government and women unfit, on the affirmative side of the question, and th... ... of a conscientious comparison between different modes of constituting the government of society; if, after trying various other modes of social organ... ... of the primitive condition of humanity; and only the few who have studied history accurately, or have much fre quented the parts of the world occupi... ... faculties of any person in those ages, ex cept a philosopher or a saint. History gives a cruel experience of human nature, in showing how exactly th... ...ellow subjects; with no means of com bining against him, no power of even locally over mastering him, and, on the other hand, with the stron gest mo... ...d into it by its members, could lawfully practise their calling within its local limits; and nobody could practise any calling deemed impor tant, in ...

Excerpt: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.

...f the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publica... ...e European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...RING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their culture and their traditions, DESIRING to enhance further th... ...hereof. The European Council shall bring together the Heads of State or of Government of the Member States and the President of the Commission. They s... ...all respect the national identities of its Member States, whose systems of government are founded on the principles of democracy. 2. The Union shall r... ...favour of Community institutions or bodies, central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies governed by public law, or ... ...access by Community institutions or bodies, central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies governed by public law, or ... ... areas: —improvement of the knowledge and dissemination of the culture and history of the European peoples; —conservation and safeguarding of cultural...

Excerpt: Treaty On European Union. A new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities.

...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...r own devices for enslaving one another. Thus, in the prison office of the Government town, it was not the fact that men and animals had received the ... ...ghly-paved street. Isvostchiks [cabmen], tradespeople, cooks, workmen, and government clerks, stopped and looked curiously at the prisoner; some shook... ...he Second Guild merchant, Therapont Emilianovich Smelkoff, of Kourgan. The local police doctor of the fourth district certified that death was due to ... ...lodging-house Mauritania, Euphemia Botchkova, placed to her account in the local Commercial Bank 1,800 roubles. The postmortem ex amination of the bod... ... no edu- cated man of our time can help being convinced who knows a little history and how the religions, and espe- cially Church Christianity, origin... ...took it in, surprised her. In two years he had mastered algebra, geometry, history—which he was specially fond of—and made acquaintance with artistic ...

...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ld-fashioned schoolmistress who did not believe in Miss Wilson’s system of government by moral force, and carried it out under protest. Though not ill... ...ctaves, and subsiding again. It was a true fe- line screech, impossible to localize; but it was interrupted by 17 GB Shaw a sob, a snarl, a fierce sp... ... by one of the Universities, or, as the college phrase was, “the Cambridge Local.” None of them responded. “Fifth form, then,” said Miss Wilson. Jane,... ...n of nature, shared only by her favorite poets and he- roes of romance and history. Hence she was in the common youthful case of being a much better j... ... with sufficient influence to have had a si- necure made by a Conservative government expressly for the maintenance of his son pending alliance with s... ...r a man to be a hero in this nineteenth century, which will be infamous in history as a time when the greatest advances in the power of man over natur...

...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... them. I saw again all the old plantations that I had ever seen; the whole history of the Negro ran through my mind; and the inexpressible pathos of h... ...hinking not of them, but of that long and unhappy chapter in our country’s history which followed the one great structural mistake of the Fathers of t... ...the benefit of the whole com- munity. It had to be done, moreover, without local help, in the face of the direst poverty, done by begging, and done in... ...on, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and s... ...econstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother. 58 UP... ...The occasion of the trouble was that a dark-skinned man had stopped at the local hotel. Investigation, however, developed the fact that this individua...

...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...s old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history, until the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attracted settle... ...allowance. The story is current, at any rate, though I believe that strict history will not bear it out, that the only bridge ever carried away on the... ...m the same author “Of the Planting of the 19th Church in the Mattachusets’ Government, called Sudbury”: “This year [does he mean 1654] the town and ch... ... above the water on either hand, and flowering at this season and in these localities, in front of dense fields of the white species which skirted the... ...he grape, and wished that we could inform one of our friends behind of the locality of this somewhat rare and inaccessible flower before it was too la... ...e plainly cultivators of the earth, and lived under an organized political government. The school house stood with a meek aspect, entreating a long tr...

Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents I. HISTORY ...................................................................... ................................ 315 5 Emerson Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson HISTORY There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And whe... ...or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world; he must transfer the point of view from which hist... ... the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the government, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves ... ...ular wave of circum- stance,—as for instance an empire, rules of an art, a local usage, a religious rite,—to heap itself on that ridge and to solidify... ...men’s minds. Intellect separates the fact con- sidered, from you, from all local and personal reference, and discerns it as if it existed for its own ...

...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought,...

...Contents I. HISTORY ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 SELF-RELIANCE...........................................

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... Laurent Valla, Rabelais had retranslated into Latin the first book of the History. That translation unfortunately is lost, as so many other of his sc... ... him. Provincials have been too eager to appropriate him, to make of him a local author, the pride of some village, in order that their district might... ...t. It is the adventures of Baldo, son of Guy de Montauban, the very lively history of his youth, his trial, imprisonment and deliverance, his journey ... ...ater. But Rabelais lived in Maine. In Anjou, which often figures among the localities he names, he must have met with and read the Chronicles of the C... ...a very peremptory answer, that he would never take upon him the charge nor government of monks. For how shall I be able, said he, to rule over others,... ...e it is that the sea-water is salt, that at the time when Phoebus gave the government of his resplendent chariot to his son Phaeton, the said Phaeton,...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...n commercial civi- lization that it is no longer difficult to convince our governments that something must be done, even to the extent of attempts at ... ..., is out of fashion; and we are in that other phase, famil- iarized by the history of the French Revolution, in which the primary assumption is that t... ...y is in danger, and that the first duty of all parties, politi- cians, and governments is to save it. But as the ef- fect of this is to give governmen... ... the story of the Committee in greater detail, partly as a contribution to history; partly be- cause, like most true stories, it is more amusing than ... ...ely determined to resist any extension of the authority of teetotaller-led local governing bodies over theatres. Fifth, there were the playwrights, wi... ...nities of corruption, both pecu- niary and personal, at such salaries as a local au- thority could be persuaded to offer. It has been suggested that t...

...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

... Publication The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ed by all this, I worked listlessly and ineffectively . I was writ- ing “A History of Railways”; I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign b... ...s making. money out of his fellows as to the hungry. I had no faith in the local officials. All these district captains and tax inspectors were young ... ...nd without ide- als. The District Zemstvo, the Peasant Courts, and all the local institutions, inspired in me not the slightest desire to appeal to th... ...ions who were busily engaged in picking out plums from the Zemstvo and the Government pie had their mouths al- ways wide open for a bite at any other ... ...irs to my own storey. An hour later I was sitting at my table, writing my “History of Railways,” and the starving peasants did not now hinder me from ... ...ts that with my remarkable abilities it would not be amiss for me to get a government nomination to the cadet school; but at the point when I was to h...

Excerpt: The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov.

...Contents THE WIFE........................................................................................................................................ 4 DIFFICULT PEOPLE.................................................................

...ication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...nd more attracted by it as she proceeded. For, thanks to her eminence as a local beauty, she had not that fear of beautiful and rich things which rend... ...holidays last. Excuse my keeping you waiting at the door to hear that long history. Adieu!” She waved her hand; Alice suddenly felt that it was possib... ...the opposition had given notice was tantamount to a vote of censure on the government. He was confident that ministers would have a majority. He had n... ...r his gallantry, his personal prowess, his eloquence, and his influence on local politics. It was Bashville who now entered the library with a salver,... ... and that he stole it from some one they saw when they were ten years old. History shows us that that is the way of such fellows in all ages, as the g... ... sensible men a hundred years ago?” “You do not understand the duties of a government, Lydia. Y ou never approach the subject without confirming my op...

...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....